Compiled by Julian A. Knott
Inlay design by David Miller
Mastering by Paul Allen
With thanks to: Dee Hellier and Ronnie Bridges at Southern, Steve Rosie at De Wolfe, Paul Kiane and Nigel Piper at Chappell, the staff at KPM, and Alisdair J.L. Blaazer at the MCPS

All invaluable cogs in the machinery of production!

This cassette was published by the Reference Department of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society in September 1987, in a special limited edition of 300

Printed on a separate piece of card slipped inside the cassette inlay.

When the meagre budget of 'Doctor Who' precluded the use of expensive, specially composed incidental music - or where a director's preference overruled the option - it was common to turn to recorded music libraries for 'mood', 'atmosphere' or 'stock' music.

This cassette comprises of some of the many tracks of stock music used between 1963 and 1968; presented here in their full versions. Often only a short passage or phrase would be lifted from the full piece, and so i have selected tracks only when a significant proportion of the work has been used in the series.

All the tracks have been recorded from the original master tapes or discs, sometimes necessitating a search of some very old recordings, dating back to the 1950's.

Great care has been taken to optimise the quality of these recordings, but I have been asked to point out, on behalf of the music libraries, that occasionally the age of the recordings has made it impossible to make perfect copies of some tracks, resulting in a slight loss of sound quality, and occasional foreshortening, of some of the tracks.
I hope that listening to this cassette will conjure up a little of the magic of 'Doctor Who'...

Compiled by Julian Knott from age-old library tapes, many of which had not been used since the 60s and were in serious danger of falling apart even as they were transferred to cassette, this limited piece of fan-club merchandise showcased recognisable stock cues used throughout Doctor Who's black and white era, painstakingly referenced to every episode in which they appeared. None of these pieces had been previously released, and the chances of future compilations such as Music From Tomb of the Cybermen existing without the Appreciation Society's research for this album are undeniably slim.

Compiled and produced by Julian Knott Mastering by Paul Allen Design by Graham Miller and David Miller

Doctor Who’s meagre budget didn’t always stretch to commissioning expensive, especially-composed incidental music: it was common practise to use existing library music, (also sometimes known as ‘stock’ music). Budgetary concerns were not always the reason for this practice: some directors, notably Douglas Camfield and Morris Barry, would routinely use stock music, seemingly as a preference. Stock music was usually drawn from copies of library tapes and discs held by the BBC, and was often treated electronically to make it more suitable.

Doctor Who was not unique: many shows from the period used library music to one degree or another. A lot of The Prisoner, for example, is scored with stock music, (including one of the tracks on this disc, Blast Off!)

Even stories that did have especially-composed music would sometimes use library tracks as ‘source’ music, (i.e.: music that the characters can hear, as opposed to the background, or ‘incidental’, music that only the audience is aware of). Examples include An Unearthly Child, The Evil of the Daleks and Terror of the Autons, all of which are represented here. Incidentally, the piece used in An Unearthly Child, the first episode of Doctor Who, (the record by “John Smith and the Common Men” playing on Susan’s radio), can also be heard in the first episode of Z-Cars, Four of a Kind, (where it’s one of the songs playing in a nightclub). A remarkable coincidence, to say the least!

This CD contains a selection of stock music tracks used in Doctor Who between 1963 and 1971, presented here in their original, full-length versions. All the pieces of music on the CD appear quite prominently in the series at some point, but they were rarely used intact. Only tracks where a significant proportion of the original piece has been used in the series have been chosen for the CD.

Most of the music on this CD originally appeared on the Space Adventures cassette released by the Doctor Who Appreciation Society in September 1987. Some of the original source tapes and discs, many of which dated back to the fifties, hadn’t been used in decades, and a few were deteriorating alarmingly. Great care has been taken to optimise the quality of these recordings, but I have been asked to point out, on behalf of the music libraries, that occasionally the age of the recordings has made it impossible to make perfect copies of some tracks, sometimes resulting in a slight loss of sound quality.

The CD version has been completely remastered, using state-of-the-art digital cleanup and restoration techniques, but sometimes the age and frailty of the source material is still apparent. Several tracks have been re-mastered from better-quality copies, and are presented with far better quality sound.

This new version adds several new tracks to the original line-up, including the music playing on Hall’s radio in the first episode of The Evil of the Daleks, and some of the circus music from Terror of the Autons. As a special bonus the theme music for the original 1958 BBC version of Quatermass and the Pit has been added, too.

Although Silva Screen had hoped to release Space Adventures on CD in the early '90s, copyright issues and predictions of poor sales meant that the project was abandoned until 1998, when Julian Knott returned to the music libraries to obtain fresh masters from the original reels for CD mastering. Whilst there he came across enough additional music to extend the CD by 6 tracks and to begin rumours of a Space Adventures II for the new millennium (for which we are, sadly, still waiting). The CD was printed and released by Knott himself, and was available in strictly limited quantities via mail-order and specialist stores, where it retailed for over £22. The cassette's track listing was revised throughout, with mistakes corrected ('Sideral Universe' was ammended to 'Universal Sideral', for instance, and the Pierre Arvay tracks titled with the correct preface of 'Illustrations No. 4') and episode titles ammended ('Tribe of Gum' to 'An Unearthly Child') and expanded (with individual episode titles listed for the early Hartnell stories).

Unfortunately, a rushed production period meant that some new tracks went unchecked, and track 26, supposedly music from a radio in The Evil of the Daleks: Episode 1, turned out to be unrelated to the programme, due either to false paperwork for this story or false labelling of the record itself. A second accident was more fortuitous; the disc's closing track - included on the CD only because of its use in the BBC's 1958 'Quatermass and the Pit' - was later discovered to have been used in The Space Museum: Episode 1.

Music from Tomb of the Cybermen

Various Artists: Music From Tomb Of The Cybermen CD Mini-Album, 1998 Via Satellite V-Sat ASTRA 3967

1.

Dr. Who Theme Ron Grainer

2.

Tardis Interior Brian Hodgson

3.

Tardis Landing Brain Hodgson

4.

Tardis Doors Dick Mills

5.

Space Adventure (Parts 1 - 3) M. Slavin

6.

Palpitations J. Scott

7.

Astromautics Theme (Parts 1 - 7) E. Sendel

8.

Desert Storm H. Feischner

9.

Space Time Music (Parts 1 - 4) W. Josephs

10.

Tardis Take-Off Brian Hodgson

11.

Dr. Who Theme (A New Beginning) Ron Grainer

All sound effects and Doctor Who theme arrangements were lifted directly from 30 Years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, despite none of them having appeared in the story. The CD came with sleevenotes from director Morris Barry, and was mooted as the first in a series of Doctor Who stock music mini-albums, with The Faceless Ones and Inside The Spaceship rumoured as follow-ups. Neither were produced.

Musak (from 'Time in Advance')

Various Artists: Doctor Who At The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1 - The Early Years 1963 - 1969 CD, May 2000 BBC Music BBC WMSF 6023-2

John Baker joined the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in April 1963 after three years as a BBC sound mixer, and quickly established himself as a composer of radio and television themes with unusual instrumentation, including corks pulled from bottles and the sound of stretched springs being released. He was also one of the first Workshop musicians to realise the merits of combining electronic sounds with live acoustic instruments, and his music for the 'Out of the Unknown' episode "Time in Advance" (1965) reflected this ideal by adding a jazz piano to a primarily synthesized score. The relaxing acoustic/synth music was later used as source music in two Doctor Who stories, The Macra Terror (1967) and The Invasion (1969), and was released on CD in 2000 as part of Mark Ayres' Radiophonic Workshop collection for BBC Music.

Music from The Tenth Planet

Various Artists: Music From The Tenth Planet CD Mini-Album, January 2001 Ocre Records OCH050

1.

Blast Off! Roger Roger

3.

Music For Technology Walter Scott

4.

Power Drill Douglas Gamley

5.

Space Adventure Part1 Martin Slavin

6.

Space Adventure Part 2 Martin Slavin

7.

Space Adventure Part 3 Martin Slavin

8.

Drama In Miniature Part 1 Dennis Farnon

9.

Drama In Miniature Part 2 Dennis Farnon

10.

Machine Room Douglas Gamley

11.

Drumdramatics 7 Robert Farnon

12.

Drumdramatics 10 Robert Farnon

Released in January 2001, shortly after the video release of The Tenth Planet in a special Cyberman themed boxed set. Many tracks and suites were released here for the first time, and, like Via Satellite, Ocre Records promised that further Doctor Who stock music CDs would follow.

Click on the song titles for lyrics (transcribed by ear, not officially released).

The BBC DVD of the 1996 Fox TV Movie included three stock music tracks featured in the film as bonus material. All licensed from Mar-Tune Music (ASCAP), these uncopyrighted songs had frustrated many fans determined to obtain copies for themselves, particularly In a Dream, the song playing on the TARDIS gramophone in the opening and closing scenes. Executive Producer Philip Segal had been quoted as announcing at a convention that the song was a Billie Holiday cover, sending many on a fruitless chase until the tracks true nature - a stock piece performed by Pat Hodge - was revealed in the books Regeneration and The Pocket Essential Doctor Who (both published 2000). The DVD also included an isolated soundtrack formed from the original music-only and music/effects tracks, including music dubbed out of the finished programme.